World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016

20 - 23 January 2016
1.00 - 1.00
Davos, Switzerland
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The ERC delegation will be led by its President, Prof. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, and includes 13 ERC grantees (two Nobel laureates). Four of the grantees will take part as speakers in the ERC Ideas Lab session.

The ERC delegation will participate in 16 sessions in Davos, several of them running twice.

  • Prof. Hélène Rey – speaker in ERC press conference; named "the economist to watch in 2016" by the Economist, ERC Starting grant holder (2007), London Business School (UK)
  • Prof. José Manuel Baselga – ERC Advanced grant holder (2009), Autonomous University of Barcelona (ES), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (US)
  • Prof. Flemming Besenbacher – ERC Advanced grant holder (2008), Aarhus University (DK)
  • Dr Julie Grollier, ERC Starting grant holder (2010), CNRS Paris (FR)
  • Prof. Michael Hausser, ERC Advanced grant holder (2009), University College London (UK)
  • Prof. Sir Konstantin Novoselov, Nobel laureate in Physics (2010), ERC Starting grant holder (2007), University of Manchester (UK)
  • Prof. Jeremy O’Brien, ERC Starting and Consolidator grant holder (2009, 2014), University of Bristol (UK)
  • Prof. Maja Pantic, ERC Starting grant holder (2007), Imperial College (UK)
  • Prof. Sir Christopher Pissarides – Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences (2010), ERC Advanced grant holder (2012), London School of Economics (UK), University of Cyprus (CY)
  • Dr Suchitra Sebastian, ERC Starting grant holder (2013), University of Cambridge (UK)
  • Prof. Ehud Shapiro, ERC Advanced grant holder (2008, 2014), Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)
  • Prof. Natalie Stingelin, ERC Starting grant (2011) and Proof of Concept grant holder, Imperial College (UK)
  • Prof. Martin Vetterli, ERC Advanced grant holder (2009), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (CH)

 

The ERC Ideas Lab session "The future of Computing" with ERC grantees professors Julie Grollier, Michael Hausser, Jeremy O'Brien and Ehud Shapiro will take place on the 21 January 14.45-16.00 (Congress centre) and 22 January 16.30-17.45 (the loft).

ERC President Bourguignon will speak in the session "Privatisation of Science" on 22 January 14.45–15.45.

ERC Press Conference
"Europe – magnet for talent" - Friday 22 January 12.30-13.00 with:

  • Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation
  • Prof. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, ERC President
  • Prof. Hélène Rey, ERC Starting grant winner, who returned to Europe with her grant

For interview requests, please contact:
Madeleine Drielsma, ERC Press Adviser (Mob: +32 498 98 43 97)

 

See ERC programme and ERC delegation biographies